The Drone Leaker

Daniel Everette Hale was the best dishwasher in Nashville.

丹尼尔·埃弗里特·黑尔是纳什维尔最好的洗碗机。

He was faster, more efficient, more knowledgeable about the machinery that makes a restaurant run.

他速度更快，效率更高，对餐厅运营的机械也更了解。

He could predict when the kitchen would need bowls and when small plates; he could take apart the dishwasher and deliver an impromptu lecture on the proper cleaning thereof.

他可以预测厨房什么时候需要碗，什么时候需要小盘子；他可以拆开洗碗机并就如何正确清洁洗碗机进行即兴演讲。

He was 31, slight, with a buzz cut and tattoos down his taut forearms, and while he thought himself the best, in the minds of the men for whom he worked he was a touch too invested.

他今年 31 岁，身材瘦小，留着寸头，紧绷的前臂上有纹身，虽然他认为自己是最好的，但在他为之工作的人看来，他有点过于投入了。

If something broke, such as a spray nozzle, he’d show up the next day with a new spray nozzle and tools to install it, having never checked with management at all, at which point management might say, “Daniel, we already had a backup spray nozzle.” Despite the excellence of his washing, he had been fired many times from many kitchens for generally being a pain in the ass.

如果有什么东西坏了，比如喷嘴，他会在第二天带着新的喷嘴和安装工具出现，根本没有与管理层核实过，此时管理层可能会说，“丹尼尔，我们已经有一个备用喷嘴了。”尽管他的洗衣技术非常出色，但他还是多次因为令人讨厌而被许多厨房解雇。

He was, for instance, persistently pressing the staff to demand higher wages and was repeatedly disappointed that the staff seemed uninterested.

例如，他不断向员工施压，要求提高工资，但员工似乎不感兴趣，他一再感到失望。

There was only one restaurant that lived up to the standards of the best dishwasher in Nashville.

只有一家餐厅达到了纳什维尔最好的洗碗机的标准。

This was Folk, which Daniel recalls as a “beautiful, just beautiful brand-new restaurant with, like, impeccable aesthetics and these big ceiling-high windows that let the light shine in during the midday and a beautiful marble bar and all these fresh, locally sourced ingredients.” The staff was disciplined and well trained and not given to the episodes of sexual harassment he had seen in other restaurants.

这就是 Folk，丹尼尔回忆道，这是一家“非常非常漂亮的全新餐厅，有着无可挑剔的美感，这些高高的窗户让正午的阳光照进来，还有一个漂亮的大理石吧台和所有这些来自当地的新鲜食材。”工作人员纪律严明，训练有素，并没有像他在其他餐厅看到的那样发生性骚扰事件。

In the open kitchen, he discovered “this really cool dish machine, a single-rack dish machine I hadn’t used before.” The staff was “like a family,” and the much-celebrated chef was “always, always there,” not at all like the “complete asshole dirtbag restaurant guys” he’d worked for before.

在开放式厨房里，他发现了“这台非常酷的洗碗机，是我以前没有用过的单架洗碗机”。工作人员“就像一家人”，这位备受赞誉的厨师“总是、总是在那里”，一点也不像他以前工作过的“彻头彻尾的混蛋餐厅伙计”。

But eventually, as he had in many other Nashville kitchens, Daniel became too difficult an employee to manage, too time-consuming in his ever-expanding list of ideas for improvement, and one evening in May 2019, the chef let him go.

但最终，正如他在纳什维尔其他许多厨房中所做的那样，丹尼尔成为一名难以管理的员工，他在不断扩大的改进想法清单上花费了太多时间，2019 年 5 月的一个晚上，厨师让他离开了。

Daniel got drunk, met a woman, went home with her, and immediately regretted it.

丹尼尔喝醉了，认识了一个女人，和她一起回家，立刻就后悔了。

In the night, he opened a condom but didn’t use it.

晚上，他打开了安全套，但没有使用。

He returned to his apartment early the next morning and called a close friend to whom he would lament the loss of his job.

第二天一早，他回到自己的公寓，给一位密友打电话，对失去工作表示哀悼。

“I loved it there,” he was telling his friend, there on the porch on a wet May morning in Nashville.

“我喜欢那里，”他在纳什维尔一个潮湿的五月早晨在门廊上告诉他的朋友。

“I loved it.

“我喜欢它。

I loved every minute of it.”

我喜欢其中的每一分钟。”

Daniel heard a rustling in the leaves beside the porch and thought perhaps it was his roommates, though in retrospect they would not be up at 6 a.m.

丹尼尔听到门廊旁的树叶发出沙沙声，他想也许是他的室友们，不过现在回想起来，他们不会在早上 6 点起床。

on a Thursday.

在一个星期四。

He stopped speaking.

他不再说话了。

A man in black ran toward him with a drawn gun.

一个黑衣人提着枪朝他跑来。

Then two more men.

然后还有两个人。

Then six.

然后是六个。

The FBI agents swarmed him, searched him.

联邦调查局特工包围了他，搜查了他。

Last time this had happened, the agents had seemed to Daniel contemptuous, but these guys seemed slightly embarrassed, as if to acknowledge that it was all “a little excessive.” An FBI agent stuck his hand in Daniel’s pocket and pulled out the unwrapped condom.

上次发生这种情况时，特工们在丹尼尔看来很轻蔑，但这些家伙却显得有些尴尬，仿佛承认这一切“有点过分”。一名联邦调查局特工将手伸进丹尼尔的口袋，拿出未包装的避孕套。

On the drive to work that morning, the chef turned on NPR , which is how he learned that the dishwasher he had just fired had been seized for stealing documents about the secret assassination program we have come to call the drone war.

那天早上，在开车上班的路上，厨师打开了美国国家公共广播电台（NPR），他由此得知，他刚刚解雇的洗碗机因窃取有关秘密暗杀计划（我们称之为无人机战争）的文件而被没收。

Anyone can build a combat drone.

任何人都可以建造一架战斗无人机。

If you build a drone for your little makeshift country, no one will be impressed.

如果你为你的临时小国建造一架无人机，没有人会留下深刻的印象。

We may think of drones as indestructible, ironclad, and this is the impression defense companies attempt to impart with the hard names they give the machines they build — Predator drone, Reaper drone, Hunter drone — but in fact the original word, drone, is elegantly apt, and all of these are an attempt to mask the dumb delicacy it captures.

我们可能认为无人机是坚不可摧的、坚不可摧的，这就是国防公司试图给他们制造的机器起的硬性名称——捕食者无人机、收割者无人机、猎人无人机——给人的印象，但事实上，无人机这个词的原始词非常贴切，所有这些都是为了掩盖它所捕捉到的愚蠢的美味。

Drones are flimsy, light little wisps of things, vulnerable to lost signals and sleepy pilots, vulnerable to gusts of wind and hard rain, lightning, ice.

无人机是脆弱的、轻薄的小东西，容易受到信号丢失和飞行员昏昏欲睡的影响，容易受到阵风、暴雨、闪电和冰的影响。

You will send a drone whirling into the sand should you turn too hard into a breeze or press the wrong button on your joystick; should you fly into an area of excessive electromagnetic noise or accidentally fly the drone upside down for a long while, oblivious.

如果你转得太猛，或者按错了操纵杆上的按钮，你就会让无人机飞进沙地；如果您飞入电磁噪音过大的区域或不小心将无人机长时间倒置飞行，您会浑然不觉。

They slam into mountains, crash into other planes, fall into farms, sidewalks, and waterways.

他们撞上山脉，撞上其他飞机，掉进农场、人行道和水道。

Sometimes they simply go silent and float away, never to be found again.

有时他们只是沉默并飘走，再也找不到。

Hundreds and hundreds of military drones we have lost this way, scattered across the globe.

我们就这样失去了成百上千架军用无人机，它们分散在全球各地。

It’s okay.

没关系。

They’re cheap.

它们很便宜。

We make new ones.

我们制作新的。

What is notable is not the drone but the network that keeps it aloft.

值得注意的不是无人机，而是让它保持在空中的网络。

This is where American power asserts itself: the satellites we rocket into the sky and the shallow-bowled receivers we nail to the ground.

这就是美国力量发挥作用的地方：我们将卫星发射到天空中，将浅碗接收器钉在地上。

Concrete bases, trucks dragging satellites in their beds, the cables American soldiers lay in ditches they’ve dug into someone else’s desert.

混凝土基地，卡车在床上拖着卫星，美国士兵把电缆铺设在他们在别人沙漠中挖的沟渠里。

(“A fuck-ton of cables,” as one whistleblower explained it to me.)

（正如一位举报人向我解释的那样，“他妈的一吨电缆”。）

Most of this hard and heavy infrastructure is maintained in a secrecy upheld by the CIA, which runs one drone program, the military, which runs another, the agencies that serve them, and the contractors that serve the agencies.

大多数这些坚硬而重型的基础设施都是由中央情报局（中央情报局）秘密维护的，中央情报局负责一个无人机项目，军方负责另一个项目，为他们服务的机构以及为这些机构服务的承包商。

In 2015, an insider leaked dozens of pages of documents about the inner workings of the American drone program, including information about the bureaucracy behind the “kill list” over which Barack Obama then presided.

2015年，一名内部人士泄露了数十页有关美国无人机计划内部运作的文件，其中包括巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)当时主持的“杀戮名单”背后的官僚机构的信息。

The Intercept published an eight-part series centered on these documents that became a book.

The Intercept 出版了以这些文件为中心的八部分系列，并最终成为一本书。

“A ‘second Snowden’ Leaks to The Intercept,” announced CNN , an alliteration that would prove irresistible across media; “A Second Snowden Has Leaked a Mother Lode of Drone Docs,” read a headline in Wired .

美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN) 宣布，“The Intercept 又泄露了‘第二个斯诺登’”，这一说法在媒体上被证明是不可抗拒的； 《连线》杂志的标题是：“第二个斯诺登泄露了无人机文档的主脉”。

Amnesty International called for a congressional investigation.

国际特赦组织呼吁国会展开调查。

First Snowden called it “an astonishing act of civil courage.”

首先斯诺登称其为“令人震惊的公民勇气之举”。

Nearly no one knew who Second Snowden was then or for years afterward.

当时或之后的几年里，几乎没有人知道第二个斯诺登是谁。

After he was seized in the early-morning raid and released on bail and prosecuted through a pandemic, he stopped shaving and grew what a friend called “a ZZ Top beard.” He lost weight and began to wear clothes donated by concerned acquaintances; someone else’s large khakis hung off him, the waistband folded over, a belt yanked to the last loop.

在他在清晨的突袭中被捕、保释并因疫情受到起诉后，他不再刮胡子，而是留起了朋友所说的“ZZ Top 胡须”。他减肥了，并开始穿关心的熟人捐赠的衣服。他身上挂着别人的大卡其裤，腰带折起来，皮带拉到最后一个环。

Friends pressed him to go public with the story of how and why, but Daniel maintained that in talking about himself, he would be taking the spotlight from victims of the drone war.

朋友们敦促他公开这个故事以及原因，但丹尼尔坚称，在谈论自己时，他将成为无人机战争受害者的焦点。

He rarely left his room.

他很少离开自己的房间。

In November 2020, his housemate coaxed him out for a beer at a place called Moreland’s Tavern in Northwest D.C. When Daniel arrived, eight people he knew were seated at tables outside in the cold.

2020 年 11 月，他的室友哄他去华盛顿特区西北一个叫莫兰德酒馆的地方喝啤酒。丹尼尔到达时，他认识的八个人正坐在外面寒冷的桌子旁。

The intervention had been arranged by the housemate and by one of Daniel’s closest friends, an activist named Noor Mir, who knew that Daniel was hesitant to impose on people and that he needed help.

这次干预是由室友和丹尼尔最亲密的朋友之一、一位名叫努尔米尔的活动家安排的，他知道丹尼尔在强加于人方面犹豫不决，而且他需要帮助。

“I think it’s hard for men to understand that it’s okay to feel really, really scared,” Mir told me.

“我认为男人很难理解感到非常非常害怕是没关系的，”米尔告诉我。

They went around the table, one by one, and told Daniel that he had to get his shit together.

他们一一围着桌子转，告诉丹尼尔他必须振作起来。

He needed to participate in his defense.

他需要参与他的辩护。

He needed to prepare for the possibility of prison.

他需要为可能入狱的情况做好准备。

He needed to consider the future care of his cat.

他需要考虑他的猫未来的照顾。

He needed to tell his story, because if he failed to do that, the prosecution’s story would stand unchallenged.

他需要讲述他的故事，因为如果他做不到这一点，检方的故事就不会受到质疑。

Daniel had his feet on a chair, his arms around his knees, supremely uncomfortable.

丹尼尔把脚放在椅子上，双臂搂住膝盖，非常不舒服。

Two hours in, the last person said what he had come to say.

两个小时后，最后一个人说出了他要说的话。

They waited for Daniel to respond.

他们等待丹尼尔的回应。

“All right, everybody,” he said, half-smiling for the first time that evening.

“好吧，大家，”他说，那天晚上第一次露出半微笑。

“Can we shut the fuck up now?”

“我们现在可以闭嘴了吗？”

Daniel told none of his friends he was ready to talk, but on April 4, he called me.

丹尼尔没有告诉他的朋友他准备好谈话，但 4 月 4 日，他给我打电话。

He said he didn’t want to be called a whistleblower.

他说他不想被称为举报人。

He preferred the word traitor.

他更喜欢叛徒这个词。

No one owns a secret state, and no one answers for it.

没有人拥有秘密国家，也没有人对此负责。

There was a moment in 2012, 2013, when various people outside Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan began to notice that inside Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan, the U.S. was waging constant, secret war under a set of rules known to few.

2012年、2013年有一个时刻，也门、巴基斯坦和阿富汗以外的人们开始注意到，在也门、巴基斯坦和阿富汗境内，美国正在根据一套鲜为人知的规则发动持续的秘密战争。

It was May 2013 when Obama finally felt it necessary to give his big drone speech , in which he acknowledged that drones were morally complicated, promised to “review proposals to extend oversight,” deemed them an unfortunate necessity for the safety of Americans, and generally gave the impression that he would make the program accountable.

2013 年 5 月，奥巴马终于觉得有必要发表大型无人机演讲，他在演讲中承认无人机在道德上很复杂，承诺“审查扩大监管的提案”，认为无人机对美国人的安全来说是不幸的必需品，并普遍给人留下他会让该项目负责的印象。

But everything of note that happens in this story happened after such gestures were forced, and made, and forgotten.

但这个故事中发生的所有值得注意的事情都发生在这些手势被强迫、做出、然后被遗忘之后。

Daniel Hale at home with his cat, Leila, in 2020.

2020 年，丹尼尔·黑尔 (Daniel Hale) 和他的猫莱拉 (Leila) 在家。

Photo: Courtesy of Bob Hayes Daniel did not come to the Air Force so much as he surrendered.

照片：鲍勃·海耶斯提供 丹尼尔并没有加入空军，而是投降了。

He had grown up the son of a disapproving, Bible-quoting truck-driver father in Bristol, Virginia, which is just across the state line from Bristol, Tennessee.

他的父亲是弗吉尼亚州布里斯托尔的一名卡车司机，他的父亲并不赞同，引用《圣经》，而布里斯托尔与田纳西州布里斯托尔隔州界线相望。

He is a descendant of Nathan Hale, hanged by the Brits in 1776 for attempting to pose as a Dutch schoolmaster and steal information on troop movements (according to Daniel, “not a very good spy”).

他是内森·黑尔 (Nathan Hale) 的后裔，内森·黑尔 (Nathan Hale) 于 1776 年因试图冒充荷兰校长并窃取有关部队调动的信息而被英国人绞死（根据丹尼尔的说法，“不是一个很好的间谍”）。

Daniel’s parents were under constant stress: food pantries, endless dinners of rice and beans.

丹尼尔的父母承受着持续的压力：食品储藏室、无休无止的米饭和豆类晚餐。

The services he attended as a child were “fire and brimstone” — country music, his sister said, was sufficiently sinful to send you to hell.

他小时候参加的仪式是“火与硫磺”——他姐姐说，乡村音乐的罪孽足以让你下地狱。

Among the various Appalachian churches was one, Emmanuel Baptist Church, where the pastor was revealed to be raping and torturing a young girl he and his wife had kidnapped.

在阿巴拉契亚的众多教堂中，有一个以马内利浸信会教堂 (Emmanuel Baptist Church) 为例，据透露，该教堂的牧师强奸并折磨了他和妻子绑架的一名年轻女孩。

It was 1998, and Daniel was 11.

那是 1998 年，丹尼尔 11 岁。

By the time he finished high school, Daniel trusted a single source of information, which was Democracy Now!

当丹尼尔高中毕业时，他信任单一的信息来源，那就是“现在民主！”

Daniel’s father had, from a very young age, suggested the military as a way out of poverty, but Daniel was already on an intellectual journey in which he would come to see Edward Snowden as insufficiently extreme; he wanted nothing to do with it.

丹尼尔的父亲从很小的时候就建议参军是摆脱贫困的一种方式，但丹尼尔已经踏上了知识之旅，在这段旅程中，他逐渐发现爱德华·斯诺登还不够极端；他不想与此有任何关系。

He tried enrolling in a regional UVA campus and dropped out.

他尝试入读弗吉尼亚大学的一个地区校区，但后来退学了。

He tried community college and dropped out.

他尝试过社区大学但辍学了。

He met a friend on the internet playing World of Warcraft, moved to Vegas to look for work at a casino, could find no such work (“I was kind of a dipshit at the time,” he says), and moved back home.

他在互联网上认识了一位玩魔兽世界的朋友，搬到维加斯在赌场寻找工作，但找不到这样的工作（“我当时有点笨，”他说），然后搬回了家。

He answered a job ad that said it did not require experience and was given a bus ticket to Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he joined a bunch of kids he describes as “mostly runaways.” The company put them up, two to a room, in hotels, and had them selling magazines door-to-door.

他回复了一份招聘广告，上面说不需要经验，并获得了一张前往北卡罗来纳州费耶特维尔的巴士票，在那里他加入了一群他描述为“大多是逃亡者”的孩子。公司把他们安置在酒店里，每个房间两个人，并让他们挨家挨户推销杂志。

You could get rich, the managers said, if you kept at it.

经理们说，如果你坚持下去，你就能致富。

You could be like them.

你可以像他们一样。

It would be hard to imagine a worse salesman than Daniel Hale, who once told me he has frequent nightmares because “any person of conscience in America builds up a sense of dread.” Humiliated, he asked his dad for a ride home.

很难想象还有比丹尼尔·黑尔 (Daniel Hale) 更糟糕的推销员，他曾经告诉我，他经常做噩梦，因为“在美国，任何有良知的人都会产生恐惧感。”他感到羞辱，请求父亲搭车回家。

Now he was in Bristol again, 21, with no real prospects and a sense of how brutal the world could be to a man with no skills for which the world had asked.

现在，21 岁的他又回到了布里斯托尔，没有真正的前景，也意识到这个世界对于一个没有世界所要求的技能的人来说是多么残酷。

He and his father got into a fight that became physical.

他和他的父亲发生了肢体冲突。

Daniel walked into a military-recruitment office in a strip mall near a Walmart.

丹尼尔走进沃尔玛附近一家购物中心的征兵办公室。

He took a test, aced it, and was told he could do anything he wanted.

他参加了考试，并取得了好成绩，并被告知他可以做任何他想做的事。

It wasn’t so bad, the life he had accepted when no others made themselves known, under a new president who made promises in which it was tempting to believe: the closing of Guantánamo, an end to forever war.

在新总统的领导下，他所接受的生活并没有那么糟糕，在没有其他人知道自己的情况下，他做出了令人容易相信的承诺：关闭关塔那摩，结束永远的战争。

Daniel assumed it was impossible to be a president without becoming a war criminal, but he had attended an Obama rally in his hometown.

丹尼尔认为，如果不成为战犯就不可能成为总统，但他曾参加过在家乡举行的奥巴马集会。

At the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, he studied Mandarin for the greater glory of the state.

在蒙特雷的国防语言学院，他为了国家的更大荣耀而学习普通话。

He adored his classmate Michael, with whom he had long conversations about politics and indie rap.

他很喜欢他的同学迈克尔，并与他就政治和独立说唱进行了长时间的交谈。

He thought a lot about ways to get dishonorably discharged, but he woke up in the morning and went to class.

他想了很多方法才能被不光彩地开除，但他早上醒来去上课了。

Obama did not in fact close Guantánamo in his first 100 days.

事实上，奥巴马并没有在上任的头 100 天关闭关塔那摩监狱。

He did not end the drone program or usher in a new age of transparency.

他并没有结束无人机计划，也没有开启透明的新时代。

Not a week into office, he authorized two drone strikes that killed 14 people, many of whom were not the targets.

上任不到一周，他就授权发动两次无人机袭击，造成 14 人死亡，其中许多人不是目标。

Obama increased the tempo of attacks and would, two years later, introduce the novel element of killing American citizens.

奥巴马加快了袭击的节奏，并在两年后引入了杀害美国公民的新颖元素。

At first the strikes had been limited to “Al Qaeda and associated forces,” but gradually they were found useful for forces it was extremely hard to argue were associated with Al Qaeda.

起初，袭击仅限于“基地组织和相关部队”，但逐渐发现，这些打击对于很难辩称与基地组织有联系的部队有用。

It was useful, Obama found, to employ drone strikes against the tribal enemies of various governments the U.S. was supporting.

奥巴马发现，对美国所支持的各国政府的部落敌人进行无人机袭击是有用的。

It was useful to target not just high-ranking members of various organizations but low-level members; useful to evolve the whole thing from an assassination program to a holistic counterinsurgency machine.

不仅针对各个组织的高级成员，而且针对低级别成员也是有用的；有助于将整个事情从暗杀计划发展为全面的反叛乱机器。

In parts of Pakistan, locals had stopped drinking Lipton tea, out of fear that the tea bags were homing devices used by the CIA to attract drones.

在巴基斯坦部分地区，当地人已经停止喝立顿茶，因为担心茶包是中央情报局用来吸引无人机的导航装置。

In early 2001, the U.S. did not know how to launch a missile from a Predator drone without damaging the drone.

2001 年初，美国不知道如何从“捕食者”无人机发射导弹而不损坏无人机。

In early 2001, one could not have run an assassination program based on geolocation, simply because terrorism was not yet run on cell phones.

2001 年初，人们无法实施基于地理定位的暗杀计划，仅仅因为恐怖主义还没有在手机上运行。

Fourteen years later, the Pentagon was planning to spend nearly $3 billion on unmanned aerial vehicles in a single year.

十四年后，五角大楼计划在一年内斥资近 30 亿美元购买无人机。

The president had access to technologies available to no president before him, and he opted to use them.

总统可以使用他之前的任何一位总统都无法使用的技术，因此他选择使用这些技术。

Obama, Daniel concluded, was “a clown,” “just a complete fraud,” who would uphold the worst policies of his secretive predecessor.

丹尼尔总结道，奥巴马是“一个小丑”，“一个彻头彻尾的骗子”，他会坚持他神秘的前任最糟糕的政策。

But now it was 2010, and the national security state’s ability to keep its secrets was beginning to break down.

但现在已经是 2010 年了，国家安全国家保守秘密的能力开始崩溃。

While at the Defense Language Institute, Daniel says, an officer came into his classroom and forbade them from searching for a term relatively new to the world: WikiLeaks.

丹尼尔说，在国防语言学院时，一名军官走进他的教室，禁止他们搜索一个对世界来说相对较新的术语：维基解密。

If they did so, they’d lose their security clearance.

如果他们这样做，他们就会失去安全许可。

Julian Assange had packaged, edited, and dramatically unveiled leaked footage of American soldiers shooting a man holding a camera because they had thought the camera was a gun.

朱利安·阿桑奇（Julian Assange）对泄露的美国士兵射击一名拿着相机的男子的镜头进行了打包、编辑并戏剧性地公布，因为他们认为该相机是一把枪。

On YouTube, one could watch the photographer die and one could watch a van pull up and a man jump out to help the photographer the Americans had shot.

在 YouTube 上，人们可以看到摄影师死去，也可以看到一辆货车停下来，一个男人跳出来帮助被美国人拍摄的摄影师。

One could watch, on YouTube, as the Americans shot up the van, though if one were watching closely, one would already have seen that in the front of the van were two small children.

人们可以在 YouTube 上看到美国人向货车开枪的情景，但如果仔细观察，就会发现货车前面有两个小孩。

One could hear a deep silence as the American soldiers watched the limp children being carried from the van.

当美国士兵看着软弱无力的孩子们被从货车里抬出来时，人们可以听到一片深深的沉默。

“Well, it’s their fault,” one hears a soldier say, “for bringing their kids into battle.”

“嗯，这是他们的错，”有人听到一名士兵说，“因为他们把孩子带上了战场。”

Daniel was sent to Fort Meade, which he describes as full of “just total dorks.

丹尼尔被派往米德堡，他形容那里充满了“十足的傻瓜”。

Just the most extreme dorks you’ve ever met in your life.” He found peace away from the dorks on long motorcycle rides.

这是你一生中遇到过的最极端的傻瓜。”他在长途摩托车骑行中找到了远离呆子的平静。

He liked to go very fast.

他喜欢走得很快。

He missed Michael and Michael’s wife, Diane.

他想念迈克尔和迈克尔的妻子黛安。

He was bored, so bored that he began to toy with the idea of deploying.

他很无聊，无聊到他开始考虑部署的想法。

Perhaps if he were at the center of the war, he could make a small part of that war slightly less unjust.

也许如果他处于战争的中心，他可以让这场战争的一小部分变得不那么不公正。

Someone from among them would be sent.

他们当中会有人被派去。

Why not him?

为什么不是他？

Wasn’t it better to know than not to know?

知道不是比不知道更好吗？

He was rationalizing his way out of Maryland.

他正在为离开马里兰州寻找合理的出路。

Daniel was 25 years old.

丹尼尔当时 25 岁。

Over the course of his life, he and everyone he knew had come to carry beacons in their pockets, continuously beaming their location to towers owned by someone else.

在他的一生中，他和他认识的每个人都将信标装在口袋里，不断地将自己的位置发送给别人拥有的塔楼。

These were years in which Americans slowly became accustomed to being tracked in exchange for small conveniences or simply as the price of engaging in contemporary life.

在这些年里，美国人慢慢习惯了被追踪，以换取小小的便利，或者仅仅作为参与当代生活的代价。

It was hard to turn off the location data on your phone, and even if you made the effort, many apps would continue tracking, so most of us did not bother.

关闭手机上的位置数据很难，即使你付出了努力，许多应用程序也会继续跟踪，所以我们大多数人都没有打扰。

It was disturbing to know that the totality of our email and private messages was being scanned by Google and Facebook, but then we’d already agreed to be tracked by our phones.

令人不安的是，我们的电子邮件和私人消息都被谷歌和 Facebook 扫描，但我们已经同意被我们的手机跟踪。

That a “virtual assistant” you’ve voluntarily placed in your bedroom had the capacity to record private conversations was not ideal, but then even terrorists found that the convenience of communication outweighed the risks.

你自愿放置在卧室里的“虚拟助手”能够记录私人谈话，这并不理想，但后来甚至恐怖分子也发现沟通的便利性超过了风险。

That was how Daniel found them.

丹尼尔就是这样找到他们的。

Daniel didn’t know what JSOC was when he was given his deployment papers, though by the time he arrived at Fort Bragg, he knew it was exclusive.

当丹尼尔拿到部署文件时，他并不知道联合特种作战司令部是什么，但当他到达布拉格堡时，他知道这是独一无二的。

Others with this assignment were given access to a privileged part of the base, one of the few places where you didn’t wear a hat and where the soldiers had beards.

其他执行此任务的人可以进入基地的特权部分，这是少数几个不戴帽子、士兵留胡子的地方之一。

A captain had told him not to tell others he was involved in JSOC.

一名上尉告诉他不要告诉其他人他参与了联合特种作战司令部。

“Everybody around you is jerking each other off about how cool this is or whatever,” he says.

“你周围的每个人都在互相打手枪，说这有多酷之类的，”他说。

He believed it; he thought it was cool.

他相信这一点；他觉得这很酷。

He still didn’t know what was going on, really.

他仍然不知道发生了什么事，真的。

“The first thing they do,” he says, “is sit you down and you take a basic course in cell-phone technology.

“他们做的第一件事，”他说，“就是让你坐下来，学习手机技术的基础课程。

How do cell phones work, how do they interact with a network, how do those networks operate, the towers, what’s a SIM card, what’s a handset.” Daniel was shown a box that would be placed on a drone and would pretend to be a cell tower, such that the cell phones of targets would communicate with it.

手机如何工作，如何与网络交互，这些网络如何运作，信号塔，什么是 SIM 卡，什么是手机。”有人向丹尼尔展示了一个盒子，该盒子将放置在无人机上并伪装成手机信号塔，以便目标的手机可以与其通信。

He was beginning to understand.

他开始明白了。

When he arrived in Afghanistan in 2012, it became Daniel Hale’s job to stare at a screen and direct a drone from wherever it was to the location of a cell-phone number in which the military had interest.

2012 年抵达阿富汗时，丹尼尔·黑尔 (Daniel Hale) 的工作就是盯着屏幕，指挥无人机从任何地方飞向军方感兴趣的手机号码所在位置。

He and the other analysts spent their days in a wooden shed, surrounded by dusty old computers still running Windows XP.

他和其他分析师在一个木棚里度过了一天，周围都是布满灰尘的旧电脑，仍然运行 Windows XP。

There were phones and televisions and knots of thick black cable.

有电话、电视和一团又粗又黑的电缆。

From the computer, he turned on the box in the drone that searched for the cell-phone data.

他通过电脑打开无人机中搜索手机数据的盒子。

He loaded the box with the information for people the military was thinking about tracking.

他在盒子里装满了军方正在考虑追踪的人员的信息。

He tweaked settings to try to lock on.

他调整了设置以尝试锁定。

When he was done, he told someone by chat, and that person focused the camera.

完成后，他通过聊天告诉某人，那人就将相机对焦。

It was out of his hands at that point, but he could, if he wished, watch the missile, in a fraction of a second and with a force that shatters concrete, incinerate a group of men.

那时一切都超出了他的控制范围，但如果他愿意，他可以看到导弹在不到一秒的时间内以粉碎混凝土的力量烧毁一群人。

The whole thing had the air, as such work often does, of having been grandly conceived and then slapped together.

整个作品给人一种经过宏伟构想然后拼凑在一起的感觉，就像此类作品经常做的那样。

Officially, everyone was supposed to sign out every time their shifts ended, but to log off and log in required so much time, so many links broken and reestablished, that according to Daniel it rarely happened.

按照官方规定，每个人每次轮班结束后都应该注销，但注销和登录需要很长时间，很多链接被破坏和重新建立，据丹尼尔说，这种情况很少发生。

Once, he says, he tried to explain this on the phone to someone back at the NSA and was told to stop talking; the analyst did not want to know about that.

他说，有一次，他试图在电话中向国家安全局的某人解释这一点，但被告知不要再说了。分析师不想知道这一点。

The intuitive argument against drones is that they introduce space between target and assassin, that they remove the element of danger from the act of killing.

反对无人机的直观论据是，它们在目标和刺客之间引入了空间，消除了杀戮行为中的危险因素。

This is an argument that has followed every advance in military technology beyond the perfect reciprocity of the swordfight: There was safety too behind a cannon.

除了剑战的完美互惠之外，军事技术的每一次进步都伴随着这样的论点：大炮背后也有安全。

Guns were considered cowardly.

枪支被认为是懦弱的行为。

Snipers were cowards and so were men who fired from submarines.

狙击手都是胆小鬼，从潜艇上开枪的人也是胆小鬼。

But remove is not necessarily the experience of drone warfare, which is really surveillance warfare.

但移除并不一定是无人机战的体验，无人机战才是真正的监视战。

Day after day, the drone will send video feed of the same man leaving the same house and returning again.

日复一日，无人机会发送同一个人离开同一所房子并再次返回的视频。

One becomes familiar with the patterns of his life, and what one cannot know, imagination builds out.

人们逐渐熟悉了自己的生活模式，而人们不知道的事情，就会产生想象力。

At night, when the infrared camera is operative, people appear as red blobs.

晚上，当红外摄像头工作时，人们会呈现出红色斑点。

It is hot, and they go on the roof to sleep.

天气很热，他们就到屋顶上睡觉。

“I saw them having sex with their wives,” said one drone pilot.

“我看到他们和妻子发生性关系，”一名无人机飞行员说。

“It’s two infrared spots becoming one.” A lit cigarette is a sun bobbing before a mouth.

“这是两个红外点合而为一。”一支点燃的香烟是一颗在嘴边晃动的太阳。

This is not the straight path of increasing distance between assassin and target.

这并不是增加刺客和目标之间距离的直线路径。

This is deep, half-imagined, crazy-making intimacy.

这是一种深刻的、半想象的、令人疯狂的亲密关系。

This is something new.

这是新事物。

Over the course of the War on Terror, as we used to call it before it simply became American foreign policy, swathes of Pakistan and Yemen came to be under 24-hour surveillance by drone, which is to say that people living in these areas today cannot cross the street without knowing that they are being recorded and that the recording will be sent to a satellite and sucked into a receiver, where the footage will be stored in the service of someone’s idea of American security.

在反恐战争（在反恐战争成为美国外交政策之前我们常这么称呼它）的过程中，巴基斯坦和也门的大片地区受到无人机 24 小时的监视，也就是说，今天生活在这些地区的人们在过马路时不知道自己正在被录音，录音将被发送到卫星并吸入接收器，录像将存储在接收器中，以服务于某人的美国安全理念。

It will very likely never be watched, because there are not enough analysts to analyze all of the footage that the U.S. produces; where privacy is afforded, it is afforded by the grace of inefficiency.

它很可能永远不会被观看，因为没有足够的分析师来分析美国制作的所有镜头；在提供隐私的地方，它是通过低效率的恩典来提供的。

Drones, writes Michael Boyle, a senior fellow in national security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, have “led the United States to displace its original goal — to fight al Qaeda more effectively — in favor of a larger one of knowing, and possibly even controlling, greater portions of the earth than it had previously imagined possible.”

外交政策研究所国家安全高级研究员迈克尔·博伊尔写道，无人机“导致美国取代了最初的目标——更有效地打击基地组织——转而比以前想象的更广泛地了解、甚至可能控制地球上更大的部分。”

Shortly before Daniel Hale arrived in Afghanistan, the Air Force deployed what it called “Gorgon Stare”: a drone video system that involves 368 cameras covering 40 square miles at a time.

在丹尼尔·黑尔 (Daniel Hale) 抵达阿富汗之前不久，空军部署了所谓的“Gorgon Stare”：一种无人机视频系统，包含 368 个摄像头，一次覆盖 40 平方英里的范围。

It used to be that, in watching, we suffered a “soda straw” problem; one could watch, as if through a tube, a single figure cut his way across a landscape to the exclusion of the surrounding land.

以前，我们在观看时遇到了“汽水吸管”的问题；人们可以看到，就像通过一根管子一样，一个人穿过一片风景，将周围的土地排除在外。

Wide-area aerial surveillance, familiar from films shot from above, is in fact new to the world; only in the past decade has it become possible to watch a whole landscape, to track a whole network of men who meet at a location and watch them each walk home.

广域空中监视（广域空中监视）在从高空拍摄的电影中很常见，但实际上对世界来说还是新鲜事。只是在过去的十年里，人们才能够观察整个景观，追踪在某个地点相遇的整个网络，并看着他们各自走回家。

This view is enabled by something called a high-altitude long-endurance drone, the acronym for which is HALE.

这种视图是由高空长航时无人机实现的，其缩写是 HALE。

In the months when he worked in the drone program, Daniel Hale never touched a drone, never flew one, never even worked on a base from which they lifted into the air.

在从事无人机项目的几个月里，丹尼尔·黑尔从未接触过无人机，从未驾驶过无人机，甚至从未在无人机升空的基地工作过。

The idea that his own moral righteousness could affect the war in any way now struck him as absurd.

他自己的道德正义可以以任何方式影响战争的想法现在让他感到荒谬。

Sometimes the machine for which he worked was called “one warhead one forehead,” because each mission targeted only one man.

有时，他工作的机器被称为“一个弹头一个额头”，因为每次任务只针对一个人。

But the men were very often surrounded by other men as the missile found them.

但当导弹发现这些人时，他们经常被其他人包围。

This is what ate at him.

这就是他所吃的东西。

He knew nothing about these people; none of them would have been the target of the attack.

他对这些人一无所知；他对这些人一无所知。他们都不会成为攻击的目标。

But they would die too.

但他们也会死。

And though the Obama administration would deny this, many men would reportedly not be counted as civilians but as “enemies killed in action.” Daniel knew cell phones could have been passed from presumed terrorists to other people entirely, and innocent people and those around innocent people would then be killed instead.

尽管奥巴马政府否认这一点，但据报道，许多人不会被视为平民，而是被视为“在行动中阵亡的敌人”。丹尼尔知道手机可能会被假定的恐怖分子完全传给其他人，而无辜者和无辜者周围的人就会被杀害。

He knew no one back home was thinking about this.

他知道家里没有人考虑这件事。

“There were two worlds,” Chelsea Manning once said .

“有两个世界，”切尔西·曼宁曾经说过。

“The world in America, and the world I was seeing.” The gap between what America did and what Americans knew was part of the horror, and it was the part that appeared ameliorable.

“美国的世界，以及我所看到的世界。”美国所做的事情和美国人所知道的之间的差距是可怕的一部分，也是看起来可以改善的部分。

Hale at a peace protest in front of the White House.

黑尔在白宫前参加和平抗议活动。

Photo: National Bird/Torsten Lapp Daniel had once wanted to be a journalist, and he was still considering this possibility when he landed back in D.C. There were many journalists of whom he did not approve, but there was one he trusted because this journalist had worked for Democracy Now!

照片：National Bird/Torsten Lapp 丹尼尔曾经想成为一名记者，当他回到华盛顿时，他仍在考虑这种可能性。有很多他不认可的记者，但有一个他信任的记者，因为这位记者曾为“民主现在！”工作过！

His name was Jeremy Scahill, and he had just written a book called Dirty Wars , which would be adapted for a documentary, the adaptation nominated for an Oscar.

他的名字叫杰里米·斯卡希尔，他刚刚写了一本名为《肮脏的战争》的书，该书将被改编成一部纪录片，该改编作品获得了奥斯卡提名。

In April 2013, Daniel saw him speak at the bookstore Politics and Prose.

2013年4月，丹尼尔在政治与散文书店看到他演讲。

He approached Scahill afterward and texted a friend to say that a reporter wanted him to “tell my story about drones at the opening screening of his documentary.” Back at work, Daniel’s superiors told him to “read everything you can get your hands on because it will make you a better analyst.” It is likely that they did not intend that he should search “Jeremy Scahill” and “Dirty Wars” on his NSA computer, though this is how he chose to interpret their advice.

后来他找到斯卡希尔，给一位朋友发短信说，一名记者希望他“在他的纪录片开场时讲述我关于无人机的故事”。回到工作岗位后，丹尼尔的上级告诉他“阅读你能找到的所有资料，因为这会让你成为一名更好的分析师。”他们很可能并不打算让他在他的国家安全局计算机上搜索“杰里米·斯卡希尔”和“肮脏的战争”，尽管他选择这样解释他们的建议。

In June, when Scahill had a book event at D.C.’s Busboys and Poets, Daniel Hale was right there beside him on a makeshift dais at the front of the room.

六月，当斯卡希尔在华盛顿的巴士男孩和诗人举办读书活动时，丹尼尔·黑尔就在房间前面的临时讲台上，坐在他旁边。

A year after the joint appearance, The Intercept published a 166-page internal document that laid out the rules under which the Obama administration put people on terrorist watch lists.

联合露面一年后，The Intercept 发布了一份 166 页的内部文件，列出了奥巴马政府将人员列入恐怖分子观察名单的规则。

A year after that, The Intercept published the Drone Papers , an eight-part report that became a book with an introduction written by the anonymous leaker.

一年后，The Intercept 发表了《无人机论文》，这是一份由八部分组成的报告，后来成为一本书，并由匿名泄密者撰写了介绍。

Together, Scahill and the leaker created a moment in which the media acknowledged the existence of wars waged in secret with a clumsy ineptitude counter to promises of “precision.” “Our source was someone who is directly involved with the assassination program.

斯卡希尔和泄密者共同创造了一个时刻，媒体承认存在秘密发动的战争，但笨拙无能地违背了“精确”的承诺。 “我们的消息来源是直接参与暗杀计划的人。

And this person got to a point where they felt like they couldn’t not speak out,” Scahill told NPR.

这个人已经到了无法不发声的地步，”斯卡希尔告诉美国国家公共广播电台。

What few people knew, at the time, was that the government almost certainly knew who the Second Snowden was and, for mysterious reasons, did nearly nothing about it either before or for years after the Drone Papers were published.

当时很少有人知道，政府几乎肯定知道第二个斯诺登是谁，但出于神秘的原因，在《无人机论文》发表之前或之后的几年里，政府几乎没有采取任何行动。

Daniel doesn’t think his father’s religiosity is “relevant” to this story, but he also says he was “called upon” to leak these documents, that he, like the biblical Daniel, has “premonitions,” and that a “righteous justice” will soon fall upon this country.

丹尼尔认为他父亲的宗教信仰与这个故事“无关”，但他也表示，他“被要求”泄露这些文件，他像圣经中的但以理一样，有“预感”，“正义的正义”很快就会降临到这个国家。

When he returned from Afghanistan, he wanted to go to school, and for this he needed money, and as an analyst with security clearance, money was easily made.

当他从阿富汗回来时，他想去上学，为此他需要钱，而作为一名拥有安全许可的分析师，钱很容易赚到。

Six months after meeting Scahill, Daniel had left the Air Force and started working for Leidos, a company that makes more than $10 billion a year in revenue by convincing the federal government of its utility.

与斯卡希尔会面六个月后，丹尼尔离开了空军，开始为 Leidos 工作，这家公司通过说服联邦政府相信其实用性，每年的收入超过 100 亿美元。

He said he would only do it for six months, a promise he kept.

他说他只会这样做六个月，他兑现了这一承诺。

He was assigned to a little-known government agency called the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, which had recently built a $1.7 billion building, the third-largest federal office building in the D.C. area.

他被分配到一个鲜为人知的政府机构，即国家地理空间情报局，该机构最近建造了一座耗资 17 亿美元的大楼，是华盛顿地区第三大联邦办公楼。

The diction employed by the NGA has that quality, beloved by military prose stylists, of pointlessly combative abstraction.

NGA 使用的措辞具有军事散文文体家所喜爱的毫无意义的战斗性抽象品质。

“Dependency on technology is not our goal — we must leverage and master it,” wrote the agency’s director in 2020.

“对技术的依赖不是我们的目标——我们必须利用并掌握它，”该机构的主管在 2020 年写道。

“We’re soon moving to a point,” said another executive at the agency later that year, “where we think, essentially, every part of the planet will be imaged on a daily basis.” From the top, the building is two half-circles set around a dome so as to resemble, with the literalism typical of so much public art and architecture, a giant eye.

该机构的另一位高管当年晚些时候表示：“我们很快就会达到这样一个目标：我们认为，地球上的每个部分基本上每天都会被拍摄到。”从顶部看，这座建筑是两个围绕圆顶的半圆，就像公共艺术和建筑中典型的字面主义一样，是一只巨大的眼睛。

Daniel moved into a room in a million-dollar, 4,700-square-foot McMansion in Lorton, Virginia, owned by the divorced mother of a friend.

丹尼尔搬进了弗吉尼亚州洛顿一栋价值百万美元、面积为 4,700 平方英尺的麦克豪宅，业主是一位朋友的离婚母亲。

The streets were wide and quiet, and all the trees looked like they’d been planted yesterday.

街道宽阔而安静，所有的树看起来就像是昨天种下的。

At the NGA, Daniel sat at a desk among many other desks in a forgotten corner of a long cubicle farm on the sixth floor of a giant eye and entered location data for geographic points in China on U.S.-government maps.

在 NGA，丹尼尔坐在六楼一个长隔间农场一个被遗忘的角落里的一张桌子上，旁边有许多桌子，上面有一只巨大的眼睛，他输入了美国政府地图上中国地理点的位置数据。

He was finally using his Chinese.

他终于可以用中文了。

It was dull make-work, a lot of “boring days and stupid meetings.” He could plot 1,000 points a day, and he did so for days on end, though, he says, all the same information was available on Google Maps.

这是无聊的工作，有很多“无聊的日子和愚蠢的会议”。他每天可以绘制 1,000 个点，而且他会连续几天这样做，不过他说，谷歌地图上提供了所有相同的信息。

Behind him was “a big kind of jolly guy” who had the right taste in music but was “very outspoken about things like his opposition to abortion.” The most interesting people were not government lifers but outsiders brought in for some technical wizardry, and this was the case with the design analyst Daniel was wasting time with one day.

在他身后的是“一个快乐的大家伙”，他对音乐有正确的品味，但“对反对堕胎等事情非常直言不讳”。最有趣的人不是政府终身人员，而是外来者带来的一些技术魔法，这就是设计分析师丹尼尔有一天浪费时间的情况。

He was someone Daniel wanted to learn from, “a very fascinating dude, a fringe kind of guy,” and at one point in the conversation the fascinating dude asked Daniel to pull up some footage of drone strikes.

他是丹尼尔想向他学习的人，“一个非常迷人的家伙，一个边缘人”，在谈话中，这个迷人的家伙要求丹尼尔调出一些无人机袭击的镜头。

“He had this sick fascination with it,” says Daniel.

“他对此有一种病态的迷恋，”丹尼尔说。

“He wanted to watch people die.

“他想看着人们死去。

I had this, like, really deep sinking feeling, you know, and I basically expressed to him that this was repulsive.” He talked about having operated the drones, his part in it, and the design analyst was taken aback.

我有一种非常深刻的感觉，你知道，我基本上向他表达了这令人厌恶。”他谈到了操作无人机的经历以及他在其中所扮演的角色，设计分析师大吃一惊。

“Something was speaking to me,” says Daniel, “very deeply, something I hadn’t felt since I left Afghanistan, and it was telling me again, You can’t let this go.

“有东西在对我说话，”丹尼尔说，“非常深刻，这是我离开阿富汗以来从未有过的感觉，它再次告诉我，你不能放手。

This is your last opportunity.

这是你最后的机会。

If you don’t do this, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.

如果你不这样做，你会后悔一辈子。

” Given his role in the war machine, he had begun to think of himself as a war criminal who ought to be in jail anyway.

考虑到他在战争机器中的角色，他开始认为自己是一名战犯，无论如何都应该被关进监狱。

(“Should I be in jail for paying taxes?” I asked him.

（“我应该因为纳税而入狱吗？”我问他。

“Probably,” he said.)

“可能，”他说。）

Daniel began searching on his work computer, using terms he’d picked up in Afghanistan.

丹尼尔开始使用他在阿富汗学到的术语在他的工作计算机上进行搜索。

For the most part, the documents he found were as new to him as they would be to the public; he was learning about what he had been involved in as he both read his screen and tried to monitor the room so he could switch back to his work if someone passed by his computer.

在很大程度上，他发现的文件对他来说和对公众一样都是新的；当他阅读屏幕并试图监视房间时，他正在了解自己所参与的事情，以便在有人经过他的电脑时他可以切换回工作。

There was a graphic of the “kill chain,” the bureaucratic process through which Obama approved a strike: little yellow arrows pointing on a diagonal all the way up the page, landing at POTUS.

有一张“杀伤链”的图形，即奥巴马批准打击的官僚程序：黄色小箭头一直指向页面的对角线，落在美国总统身上。

There was further evidence that when military-age males were murdered in a strike, they were classified as militants, an accounting trick that lowers civilian-death counts, and there was an account of a five-month period in Afghanistan in which U.S. forces hit 19 people who were targets of strikes and 136 who were not the targets.

还有进一步的证据表明，当军事年龄的男性在一次袭击中被杀害时，他们会被归类为武装分子，这是一种降低平民死亡人数的会计技巧，并且有一份报告称，在阿富汗的五个月期间，美军袭击了 19 名袭击目标和 136 名非袭击目标。

There were admissions that the intelligence on which strikes were based was often bad and that strikes made it difficult to get good information because the people who might have provided that information had just been killed by the strike.

有人承认，袭击所依据的情报往往很糟糕，而且袭击使人们很难获得好的信息，因为可能提供这些信息的人刚刚在袭击中丧生。

There was the report detailing the secret rules the government uses to place people on the terrorist watch list.

该报告详细介绍了政府将人员列入恐怖分子观察名单的秘密规则。

“Each thing that I would discover would lead to something else,” Daniel said, “something more.” Together, these documents form a picture of a country vacuuming up massive amounts of information and struggling to transform that information into knowledge.

“我发现的每一件事都会导致其他事情，”丹尼尔说，“更多的事情。”这些文件共同构成了一个国家收集大量信息并努力将这些信息转化为知识的画面。

One gets the sense that the Obaman air of “certainty” and “precision” around drones is possible only if one has considerable distance from the process.

人们会感觉到，只有当人们与整个过程保持相当远的距离时，无人机周围的奥巴马式“确定性”和“精确性”才有可能实现。

It was in February, only three months after he had begun to work for Leidos, that he began printing.

正是在二月份，也就是他开始为 Leidos 工作三个月后，他开始印刷。

He printed six separate documents on February 28, 2014, according to the indictment, and later that day texted Scahill.

根据起诉书，他于 2014 年 2 月 28 日打印了六份单独的文件，并于当天晚些时候给斯卡希尔发了短信。

It’s extremely challenging to smuggle electronic data out of a place set up to prevent you from doing so.

将电子数据偷运出防止这样做的地方是极具挑战性的。

Paper is harder to catch on its way out the door.

纸张在走出门的过程中更难被抓住。

Daniel printed the reports — 17 of which he would allegedly give to The Intercept, totaling dozens of pages — on a nearby printer.

丹尼尔在附近的一台打印机上打印了这些报告——据称他将其中 17 份报告交给了 The Intercept，总计数十页。

He brought the reports back to his desk.

他把报告带回到办公桌上。

He stuffed them under his shirt, against his back.

他把它们塞在衬衫下面，靠在背上。

It wasn’t unusual for the guards to search you on the way out; sometimes they found papers related to someone’s work, accidentally taken, and sometimes they wrote you up for it, but papers stuffed under one’s shirt would be challenging to explain.

警卫在你出去的时候搜查你并不罕见。有时他们会发现与某人的工作相关的论文，被无意中拿走，有时他们会为此给你写信，但塞在某人衬衫下的论文将很难解释。

He walked out of the eye with them tucked under his waistband, terrified he would be searched.

他把它们夹在腰带下走出眼睛，担心自己会被搜查。

He drove back to the lonely mansion surrounded by lonely mansions.

他驱车回到了那座被孤独宅邸包围的孤独宅邸。

This was in and of itself an extraordinarily brave and reckless act.

这本身就是一种非常勇敢和鲁莽的行为。

Every search by an employee with security clearance on a government computer is tracked, every page printed logged.

拥有安全许可的员工在政府计算机上的每次搜索都会被跟踪，打印的每一页都会被记录下来。

He seems to have provided them to a reporter with whom he had publicly appeared, who had recently co-founded The Intercept, a publication premised on the act of disclosing classified documents.

他似乎将这些信息提供给了与他一起公开露面的一名记者，该记者最近共同创办了《The Intercept》，这是一份以披露机密文件为前提的出版物。

He was also participating in a documentary on drone whistleblowers, which meant that a camera crew periodically showed up at the mansion and set up equipment and invited him to expound, at length, on the record, about crimes of the state.

他还参加了一部关于无人机举报人的纪录片，这意味着摄制组会定期出现在官邸并设置设备，并邀请他详细、记录地阐述国家的罪行。

Daniel was not done.

丹尼尔还没有完成。

Through April, May, July, and August, according to the indictment, he printed out more and more documents.

根据起诉书，四月、五月、七月和八月，他打印了越来越多的文件。

In July, The Intercept published the government’s secret rules for putting people on the terrorist watch list; the documents informed not only the Drone Papers, for which Daniel later became known, but a slew of other Intercept pieces published between 2014 and 2016.

7 月，The Intercept 公布了政府将人员列入恐怖分子观察名单的秘密规则；这些文件不仅为丹尼尔后来出名的《无人机论文》提供了信息，还为 2014 年至 2016 年间发表的大量其他 Intercept 文章提供了信息。

Daniel smuggled them out, and sometimes, because he didn’t “want to leave a trail of evidence,” he, incredibly, smuggled them back in, where he placed them in the bag where all classified printed material is meant to go.

丹尼尔把它们偷偷带出去，有时，因为他不想“留下证据”，令人难以置信的是，他又把它们偷偷带回来，然后把它们放在所有机密印刷材料应该放的袋子里。

Daniel’s last day at Leidos was August 8, 2014.

丹尼尔在 Leidos 的最后一天是 2014 年 8 月 8 日。

Looking back, he said there was something off in everyone’s manner that day, “a weird niceness” in the affect: shaking his hand, wishing him well, lamenting that he couldn’t stay longer.

回想起来，他说那天每个人的态度都有些不对劲，情感中“有一种奇怪的友善”：握着他的手，祝他一切顺利，感叹自己不能再待更长的时间。

He got home, took off his clothes, and poured himself a Scotch.

他回到家，脱掉衣服，给自己倒了一杯苏格兰威士忌。

He was in his underwear, playing video games in his room, when he heard a “cop knock,” loud and insistent.

当他穿着内衣在房间里玩电子游戏时，他听到了“警察敲门声”，声音响亮而持续。

When he opened the door he was pushed inside, shown badges.

当他打开门时，他被推了进去，并出示了徽章。

Twenty agents with guns, he said, let themselves in.

他说，二十名持枪特工自行进入。

That you’ve invited something into your home does not mean you’re prepared to face it.

你邀请了一些东西到你家并不意味着你准备好面对它。

Daniel was terrified.

丹尼尔很害怕。

An agent led him to a small room sometimes used as an office in a corner of the house to which he had never been and left him there to hear the sounds of his friend’s mom’s house being torn apart.

一名特工把他带到了房子角落里一个他从未去过的小房间，有时用作办公室，然后让他留在那里听他朋友妈妈的房子被撕裂的声音。

For seven hours, they left him there to worry.

他们把他留在那里担心了七个小时。

They searched his phone, where he had Scahill in his contact list.

他们搜查了他的手机，他的联系人列表中有斯卡希尔。

If they were this interested, they would already know which documents he had viewed and which printed on what days.

如果他们这么感兴趣，他们早就知道他看过哪些文件，哪些文件是在哪几天打印的。

If they knew enough to come here, there was little else to know.

如果他们知道的足以来到这里，那就没什么可知道的了。

Daniel waited for the moment they would finish and take him to jail.

丹尼尔等待着他们完成并把他送进监狱的那一刻。

He thought about all the things he would want to take care of before going to prison and how now he would not be able to take care of them, because although he had known they would come, he had not prepared.

他想到了进监狱之前他想要处理的所有事情，而现在他怎么可能无法处理它们，因为虽然他知道他们会来，但他还没有做好准备。

Eventually he got so bored he started talking to the FBI agents.

最终他感到无聊，开始与联邦调查局特工交谈。

Some of them had also been to Afghanistan, doing interrogations.

其中一些人还去过阿富汗进行审讯。

Toward the end of the raid, the woman who owned the house came home to find black cars in the driveway, neighbors watching.

突袭快要结束时，房子的女主人回到家，发现车道上停着黑色汽车，邻居们在注视着。

To Daniel’s horror, she was also interrogated.

令丹尼尔惊恐的是，她还受到了审问。

And then, carrying with them books and computers and paper, on that Friday evening in August, the FBI agents drove away.

然后，在八月的那个星期五晚上，联邦调查局探员带着书籍、电脑和纸张开车离开。

Daniel was mystified, paralyzed in his confusion.

丹尼尔感到很困惑，陷入了混乱之中。

Would they come back for him tomorrow?

他们明天会回来找他吗？

He apologized to the woman who owned the house, who was distraught and confused.

他向这所房子的女主人道歉，她心烦意乱、困惑不解。

He said he could not tell her what any of this was about, and he tried to reassure her that she wasn’t in any trouble.

他说他无法告诉她这一切是怎么回事，并试图向她保证她没有遇到任何麻烦。

He felt he couldn’t stay there, impose on her, a minute longer.

他觉得自己不能再呆在那里，再强加给她一分钟。

Daniel packed up his few belongings, got on his motorcycle, and left.

丹尼尔收拾好他的一些东西，骑上摩托车离开了。

He says an SUV with three agents inside appeared behind him, and he skipped a curb and tried to lose them.

他说，一辆载着三名特工的SUV出现在他身后，他跳过路缘并试图摆脱他们。

He went 80 miles an hour on the highway, which was “kind of fun actually,” and headed straight for D.C., toward the home of a friend.

他在高速公路上以每小时 80 英里的速度行驶，这“实际上很有趣”，然后直奔华盛顿，前往一个朋友的家。

The next day, he would meet with Jesselyn Radack, a lawyer associated with Snowden, Thomas Drake, and many other people who have disclosed information unflattering to American bureaucracy.

第二天，他会见杰西琳·拉达克（Jesselyn Radack），一位与斯诺登、托马斯·德雷克（Thomas Drake）以及其他许多人有联系的律师，这些人向美国官僚机构披露了不光彩的信息。

What was there for him to do?

他有什么可做的呢？

The Department of Justice surely had everything it needed to send him to prison on Espionage Act charges, plausibly for a decade, but in August 2014, there was not a whisper of an indictment.

司法部确实拥有以《间谍法》罪名将他送进监狱所需的一切条件，貌似可以关上十年，但在 2014 年 8 月，却没有任何起诉的消息。

Daniel moved to New York City and went to school, as he had said he would.

丹尼尔搬到了纽约市并去上学，正如他所说的那样。

He enrolled in classes like Rhetorical Grammar, and he went to them, but it was extremely hard to care about anything not related to the FBI watching him.

他报名参加了修辞语法等课程，他也去参加了这些课程，但他很难去关心与联邦调查局监视他无关的任何事情。

He took a class about war and tried not to get angry when people in his classes, kids who had never done anything, said ridiculous things.

他上了一门关于战争的课程，当班上那些从未做过任何事的孩子说出可笑的话时，他尽量不生气。

Someone in his class said it was a feminist achievement for women to go to war, and the gulf between them seemed immeasurable.

班上有人说，女性参战是女权主义的成就，她们之间的鸿沟似乎无法估量。

It was hard, if not impossible, to do assignments, because assignments required writing, and writing required his computer, of which he had become very frightened.

做作业即使不是不可能，也是很困难的，因为作业需要写作，而写作需要他的电脑，而他对此感到非常害怕。

He felt, through it, watched.

他通过它感觉、观察。

Once, his roommate remembers, a pop-up ad appeared and Daniel slammed the screen shut.

他的室友记得，有一次，出现了一个弹出广告，丹尼尔猛地关上了屏幕。

The brick walls of his apartment were porous; his roommate noticed that Daniel wadded up gum and stuck it in the holes.

他公寓的砖墙是多孔的；他的室友注意到丹尼尔把口香糖揉成团，塞进洞里。

The documentarian came to the apartment.

纪录片导演来到了公寓。

There had been a plan to film Daniel walking in the park, but he wouldn’t leave.

原本计划拍摄丹尼尔在公园散步的场景，但他不肯离开。

He didn’t want to be part of the film anymore at all.

他根本不想再参与这部电影了。

There was another film, too.

还有另一部电影。

Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour was released that fall.

劳拉·波伊特拉斯 (Laura Poitras) 的《第四公民》于当年秋天上映。

For ideological fellow travelers, the film ends on an inspirational high point: Glenn Greenwald tells Snowden that a new source has come forward and scrawls something on a piece of paper visible to Snowden but hidden from the camera.

对于意识形态上的同路人来说，影片以一个鼓舞人心的高潮结束：格伦·格林沃尔德告诉斯诺登，一个新的消息来源已经出现，并在一张斯诺登可见但镜头看不见的纸上潦草写下了一些东西。

Snowden gives him a look.

斯诺登看了他一眼。

“That’s actually — that’s really dangerous — um — on the source’s side.

“这实际上——这真的很危险——嗯——在消息来源方面。

Do they know how to take care of themselves?”

他们知道如何照顾自己吗？”

“There’s a chart that goes like this,” says Greenwald.

“有一张图表是这样的，”格林沃尔德说。

“It’s shaped like this.” Greenwald draws little squares pointing diagonally up the page, and on the top square he writes POTUS.

“它的形状是这样的。”格林沃尔德画了一些小方块，指向页面的对角线，并在顶部的方块上写下了“总统”。

On another piece of paper, Greenwald writes, “There are 1.2 million people on various stages of their watch list.”

格林沃尔德在另一篇论文中写道：“有 120 万人处于观察名单的不同阶段。”

“That’s fucking ridiculous,” says Snowden, who begins to pace.

“这真是太荒谬了，”斯诺登说，他开始踱步。

Second Snowden was at that time a first-semester freshman terrified to use his computer.

第二个斯诺登当时还是一个第一学期的新生，害怕使用他的电脑。

Once, a Comcast guy showed up at the apartment, installed a router, and left.

有一次，康卡斯特的一个人出现在公寓，安装了路由器，然后就离开了。

Then a second Comcast guy showed up, ready to install the router, unaware of the first guy.

然后第二个康卡斯特人出现了，准备安装路由器，而第一个人却没有意识到。

The first Comcast guy, Daniel concluded, had been bugging the apartment.

丹尼尔断定，第一个康卡斯特人一直在对公寓进行窃听。

In February, Citizenfour won an Oscar.

二月，《第四公民》获得奥斯卡奖。

Daniel failed all of his classes.

丹尼尔所有的课程都不及格。

He got a cat called Amber, which he decided was a “stripper name,” so he changed her name to Leila, after Leila Khaled, the first woman to hijack an airplane.

他养了一只名叫安布尔的猫，他认为这是一个“脱衣舞娘的名字”，所以他把她的名字改为莱拉，以第一个劫持飞机的女性莱拉·哈立德的名字命名。

He adored Leila.

他很喜欢莱拉。

He loved her so much he took her with him when he gave up on New York for Nashville, which meant giving away almost all of his stuff and strapping everything else, including a carrier containing the cat, to his motorcycle.

他非常爱她，当他放弃纽约前往纳什维尔时，他把她也带在了身边，这意味着他几乎放弃了所有的东西，并将其他所有东西都绑在了他的摩托车上，包括一个装着猫的笼子。

In October, The Intercept finally published the Drone Papers.

10 月，The Intercept 终于发表了无人机论文。

Still, no one came for him.

尽管如此，还是没有人来找他。

No one came for any of it, really.

真的没有人来找任何东西。

America has not lately been a country that tends to change its ways when revelations reveal it to be unbecoming of empire.

美国最近并不是一个当揭露其与帝国不相称时倾向于改变其行为方式的国家。

It is the lives of leakers that change.

改变的是泄密者的生活。

In 2015, Manning was in prison, having not yet attempted suicide therein, Assange was holed up in an embassy, having not yet been imprisoned in the U.K. , which would refuse to release him to the U.S. because of the risk that he would commit suicide in U.S. custody, and Snowden remained ever in exile , declaiming with the slightly mad certainty of someone too tethered to reality.

2015年，曼宁入狱，尚未企图自杀；阿桑奇则躲在大使馆，尚未在英国被监禁，英国拒绝将他释放到美国，因为他有在美国拘留期间自杀的风险；而斯诺登则一直处于流亡状态，以一种过于束缚现实的人的有点疯狂的确定性发表讲话。

To hear Daniel describe his years in Nashville is to go on a culinary tour of all the high-end kitchens from which he quit or was fired: Le Sel, Sinema, Folk; let go, he says, for an outburst of anger, or for advocating on behalf of others, or for being insubordinate.

听 Daniel 描述他在纳什维尔的岁月，就像是对他退出或被解雇的所有高端厨房进行一次烹饪之旅：Le Sel、Sinema、Folk；他说，因为愤怒的爆发，或者为他人辩护，或者不服从，就放手。

But in the spring of 2019, Daniel was happy.

但2019年的春天，丹尼尔是幸福的。

In all of his years of working with and thinking about and having nightmares about drones, Daniel had never touched one.

在丹尼尔多年与无人机相关的工作、思考和噩梦中，他从未接触过无人机。

Dishes were different.

菜肴不同。

Hot from the washer, they burned his hands.

洗衣机的热气烫伤了他的手。

He worked for a caterer and loved being around happy-drunk wedding-goers.

他在一家餐饮承办商工作，喜欢和那些喝得酩酊大醉的婚礼参加者在一起。

He could lose himself in the motion, the immediacy, the sweaty necessity of the work.

他可能会迷失在工作的动态、即时性和汗流浃背的必要性中。

The kitchen smelled of soap and heat, and he was either absorbed in the motion or fixing a problem.

厨房里弥漫着肥皂和热气的味道，他要么全神贯注于活动，要么在解决问题。

Sonia Kennebeck’s National Bird , the documentary in which Daniel had participated, premiered at Tribeca and in Berlin, and no one came for him.

丹尼尔参与拍摄的索尼娅·肯纳贝克的纪录片《国家鸟类》在翠贝卡和柏林首映，但没有人来追捧他。

The Council on American-Islamic Relations sued the federal government over the terrorist watch list, the thick rule book Daniel had allegedly leaked, and no one came.

美国伊斯兰关系委员会就恐怖分子观察名单、据称丹尼尔泄露的厚厚规则书起诉联邦政府，但没有人出庭。

Reality Winner was arrested and imprisoned even before the single document she had mailed appeared in The Intercept.

现实获胜者甚至在她邮寄的一份文件出现在《拦截》中之前就被逮捕并入狱。

Daniel tried to get a Spanish-speaking immigrant dishwasher to agitate for higher pay; the dishwasher simply left and never came back.

丹尼尔试图让一位讲西班牙语的移民洗碗工鼓动提高工资；洗碗机就这样离开了，再也没有回来。

The drone wars were now under the auspices of Donald Trump, who wiped away rules about reporting dead civilians and made it easier for strikes to be approved.

无人机战争现在是在唐纳德·特朗普的主持下，他废除了报告死亡平民的规定，并使袭击更容易获得批准。

“The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that no place is beyond the reach of American might and American arms,” Trump said .

特朗普说：“凶手需要知道他们无处可藏，没有任何地方是美国的力量和武器无法触及的。”

The military was exploring the use of artificial intelligence to sort through all the drone footage.

军方正在探索使用人工智能来整理所有无人机镜头。

One day when Daniel was expediting food, a big party came into the restaurant wanting ten hamburgers at ten different temperatures, and the chef, “notorious for being a bully and an asshole,” pretended not to hear Daniel as he tried to check the order.

有一天，丹尼尔正在加急送餐，一大群人走进餐厅，想要十个不同温度的汉堡，而“臭名昭著的恶霸和混蛋”厨师在试图检查订单时假装没有听到丹尼尔的声音。

It had been five hours like this, the chef provoking Daniel.

就这样，厨师挑衅丹尼尔，已经过去了五个小时。

He was out of patience.

他失去了耐心。

He just wanted everything to work.

他只是希望一切顺利。

“Goddamn it, Tim, stop fucking me!” he shouted and slammed his hand on the counter without looking, sending his finger straight through a ticket stabber.

“该死的，蒂姆，别操我了！”他大喊一声，看也不看就把手猛地拍在柜台上，手指直接刺穿了检票器。

Afghanistan was once again in chaos; Trump’s successor would give up on it altogether and close down the base at which Daniel had worked.

阿富汗再次陷入混乱；特朗普的继任者将完全放弃这一点，并关闭丹尼尔曾工作过的基地。

“PTSD,” writes Hugh Gusterson in Drone , “often seemed to correlate not so much with the absolute scale of raw violence but with its degree of senselessness.”

休·古斯特森在《无人机》中写道：“创伤后应激障碍通常似乎与原始暴力的绝对规模无关，而与其无意义的程度相关。”

Over the course of Daniel’s life, he and everyone he knew had come to carry beacons in their pockets, and they had become expert at not thinking about this.

在丹尼尔的一生中，他和他认识的每个人都把信标放在口袋里，他们已经成为不考虑这一点的专家。

Daniel began to feel like he wasn’t being watched.

丹尼尔开始觉得自己没有被监视。

As if the men who had searched his house had forgotten, or ceased to care, and he and Leila could continue life unmolested.

就好像那些搜查他房子的人已经忘记了，或者不再关心，他和莱拉可以不受干扰地继续生活。

It began to seem possible that they would never come for him, until one day in May 2019, they finally did.

他们似乎永远不会来找他，直到 2019 年 5 月的一天，他们终于来了。

Daniel pleaded guilty in March, after the court ruled that it would not consider what the prosecution called his “supposed ‘good motives’ ” before sentencing, and in the Hale-family tradition was convicted of espionage.

丹尼尔于三月认罪，此前法院裁定在量刑前不会考虑检方所说的他的“所谓的‘良好动机’”，并按照黑尔家族的传统被判犯有间谍罪。

At his sentencing hearing in late July, Daniel will be expected to give a statement about remorse.

在七月下旬的量刑听证会上，预计丹尼尔将发表一份悔罪声明。

He is in fact overwhelmed by remorse, though none of it is for the crime of exposing the American public to documents about the conduct of their leaders.

事实上，他内心充满悔恨，尽管这并不是因为向美国公众公开有关其领导人行为的文件而犯下的罪行。

Of that, he is very proud.

对此，他感到非常自豪。

Hale, 31, of Nashville, was arrested May 9, 2019.

黑尔，31 岁，来自纳什维尔，于 2019 年 5 月 9 日被捕。

Photo: Nashville Police Department via AP For five years, Daniel waited for the day the FBI would come collect him.

图片来源：纳什维尔警察局，美联社 五年来，丹尼尔一直在等待联邦调查局来接他的那一天。

For two years after that, Daniel waited for the day he would go to prison.

此后的两年里，丹尼尔一直在等待入狱的那一天。

It is challenging to find employment while on “pretrial release,” and it is challenging to conduct a love life.

在“审前释放”期间找工作很困难，开展爱情生活也很困难。

Should he tell people on the first date that he has been indicted?

他应该在第一次约会时就告诉人们他已被起诉吗？

The second?

第二个？

He eventually decided, as is his way, to lead with the hard truth.

他最终决定按照他的方式，以残酷的事实来领导。

“Soo, full disclosure,” read his Tinder bio, “I was charged last year with espionage for allegedly giving information about the war in Afghanistan to a group of journalists.

“苏，全面披露，”他的 Tinder 简介中写道，“去年，我因涉嫌向一群记者提供有关阿富汗战争的信息而被指控从事间谍活动。

My trial is in December and if you know anything about these types of cases you know that my chances of winning are next to none ;P.

我的审判是在十二月，如果你对这类案件有所了解，你就会知道我获胜的机会几乎为零；P。

In the meantime, I’m hoping to meet someone genuine to hang out with and maybe go on a motorcycle ride while the weather is still nice.” He listed his anthem as “Vicious,” by Lou Reed.

与此同时，我希望能遇到一个真正可以一起出去玩的人，也许在天气好的时候去骑摩托车。”他将他的国歌列为卢·里德的《恶毒》。

These were years in which many people came to believe in a conspiracy theory in which a high-level whistleblower declared the “deep state” to be run by baby-eating criminals.

在这些年里，许多人开始相信一种阴谋论，一名高级举报人宣称“深层政府”是由吃婴儿的犯罪分子统治的。

Part of this theory involved the idea that the NSA had video of everything, such that when the bad guys were defeated, the good guys would be able run the footage of their crimes.

这个理论的一部分涉及这样的想法：国家安全局拥有一切的视频，这样当坏人被击败时，好人就可以播放他们犯罪的录像。

Later, some people thought the vaccine that could end the pandemic contained a tracking device to be shot in the arm of every American.

后来，一些人认为可以结束大流行的疫苗包含一个追踪装置，可以注射到每个美国人的手臂上。

Not everyone thought this, of course.

当然，并不是每个人都这么认为。

Many of us thought these ideas were absurd.

我们许多人认为这些想法很荒谬。

We read about them from phones on which we had failed to turn off the location data.

我们从未能关闭位置数据的手机上了解到这些信息。

A federal judge ruled the terrorist watch list, challenged by 23 people represented by CAIR, unconstitutional.

一名联邦法官裁定，受到 CAIR 代表的 23 人质疑的恐怖分子观察名单违宪。

“Daniel Hale’s disclosure of the unclassified 2013 Watchlisting Guidance revealed that the criteria for inclusion are circular and illogical,” lawyers for CAIR later wrote.

CAIR 的律师后来写道：“丹尼尔·黑尔 (Daniel Hale) 披露的 2013 年非机密观察名单指南表明，纳入标准是循环且不合逻辑的。”

The probation office assigned Daniel a therapist, Michael, and the two spoke almost every week for a year.

缓刑办公室为丹尼尔指派了一位治疗师迈克尔，一年来两人几乎每周都会交谈。

There were weeks when Michael was the only person with whom Daniel talked, but after the intervention, and the protests, Daniel’s close friends noticed a change.

有几个星期，迈克尔是唯一与丹尼尔交谈的人，但在干预和抗议之后，丹尼尔的亲密朋友注意到了变化。

“He had to decide who he was going to be in prison,” Mir said, and he was edging toward this.

“他必须决定自己将在监狱里扮演什么样的角色，”米尔说，他正在朝着这个方向努力。

It would not be a surprise, like the raid.

这不会像突袭那样令人惊讶。

He had time to plan.

他有时间去计划。

He was going to quit smoking, get healthy.

他打算戒烟，恢复健康。

There was a list of things to do: see people back home, Mortal Kombat with Mir, make dinner for his friends.

有一系列要做的事情：回家看望人们，与米尔一起玩《真人快打》，为他的朋友们做晚饭。

He was talking more about his fears for the future and dark things in his past.

他更多地谈论了他对未来的恐惧和过去的黑暗事情。

He cried, for the first time in a long time, on his call with Michael.

在与迈克尔通话时，他很长一段时间以来第一次哭了。

In April, he received an email from his assigned “pretrial services officer” asking him to come to the office.

四月份，他收到了一封来自他指定的“审前服务官员”的电子邮件，要求他来办公室。

Daniel assumed the meeting was for a urinalysis to ensure he was meeting the terms of his release.

丹尼尔认为这次会面是为了进行尿液分析，以确保他符合释放条件。

He was happy to be called in, because it would give him an opportunity to ask for leave to visit a friend back in Bristol.

他很高兴被叫进来，因为这让他有机会请假回布里斯托尔看望一位朋友。

When he arrived at the office inside the courthouse, no one was at the desk.

当他到达法院内的办公室时，办公桌旁没有人。

He rang the little bell on the counter.

他按响了柜台上的小铃。

He rang it again.

他又按响了。

He sat down.

他坐了下来。

He rang it a third time.

他第三次按响了电话。

He had to pee terribly; he had held it in for the urinalysis.

他尿得很厉害。他把它保留下来进行尿液分析。

Ten minutes passed.

十分钟过去了。

Three U.S. Marshals came through the door and put him in handcuffs.

三名美国法警破门而入，给他戴上手铐。

He had violated his release, he remembers the Marshals saying, and the reason they gave was “mental health.” Michael feared he was a danger to himself.

他记得法警们说，他违反了释放规定，他们给出的理由是“心理健康”。迈克尔担心他对自己构成危险。

The violation was in being perceived as unstable when it was in the state’s interest to make sure he lived to serve his time.

当确保他活着服刑符合国家利益时，这种违规行为被认为是不稳定的。

Daniel called a friend that night from jail.

那天晚上，丹尼尔从监狱里给朋友打了电话。

“They didn’t let me say good-bye to Leila,” he told her, bereft.

“他们不让我向莱拉告别，”他悲伤地告诉她。

He had not been able to see Mortal Kombat, visit friends, or make dinner for them.

他无法观看真人快打，无法拜访朋友，也无法为他们做晚饭。

He wanted to get his thoughts on paper, but no one could tell him where to find any.

他想把他的想法写在纸上，但没有人能告诉他在哪里可以找到任何东西。

He was thinking about the thing he always thought about, the story that ran on loop, one of a few moments that rendered his illegal disclosure of documents not, he says, an act of civil disobedience but a “desperate attempt at self-preservation.” Two months into his time in Afghanistan, Daniel recalls connecting a phone number to a predator drone.

他正在思考他一直在思考的事情，循环播放的故事，他说，这是使他非法披露文件的少数时刻之一，这不是公民不服从行为，而是“自我保护的绝望尝试”。丹尼尔在阿富汗呆了两个月后，回忆起将电话号码连接到掠食者无人机上的情景。

The phone number belonged to someone they’d been surveilling for a long while in Jalalabad, and now the phone was inside a sedan, and the sedan was speeding toward the border.

这个电话号码属于他们在贾拉拉巴德监视了很长一段时间的人，现在电话在一辆轿车内，而轿车正飞速驶向边境。

It was an attempt to escape.

这是一次逃跑的尝试。

The drone struggled against the wind, but the shot was the best shot the commander was going to get.

无人机在风中挣扎，但这次射击是指挥官能得到的最好的射击。

Daniel watched “an explosion onscreen, bright white light, dust.” When the dust settled, Daniel could see that the car was still intact, though it had taken damage in the back.

丹尼尔看到“屏幕上发生爆炸，明亮的白光，灰尘。”当尘埃落定后，丹尼尔可以看到汽车仍然完好无损，尽管后面已经损坏了。

The car kept going, and he kept watching.

车子继续前行，他也一直注视着。

They stopped at a village, and a woman got out.

他们在一个村庄停下来，一个女人下了车。

Daniel hadn’t realized anyone but the man with the cell phone was inside the car.

丹尼尔没有意识到车里除了那个拿着手机的男人之外还有其他人。

She opened the trunk and riffled around.

她打开箱子，翻来覆去。

She pulled something out.

她拿出一样东西。

Then she pulled out something smaller.

然后她拿出一个更小的东西。

And they drove away.

然后他们就开车走了。

This is what Daniel saw through the soda straw, images that haunt him and a story for which he is the only source.

这就是丹尼尔透过苏打吸管看到的景象，这些画面困扰着他，也是他唯一的故事来源。

It was his captain, he says, who added the context a week later.

他说，是他的队长在一周后添加了上下文。

The family had been trying to leave together, and after shrapnel from the missile hit two little girls, around ages 3 and 5, the target “ordered his wife to get rid of their bodies so they could escape.”

这家人一直试图一起离开，在导弹的弹片击中两个年龄分别为 3 岁和 5 岁左右的小女孩后，目标“命令他的妻子摆脱她们的尸体，以便她们能够逃脱。”

The story, Daniel says, was related to him as a tale about the inhumanity of the Taliban, but that was not the lesson Daniel took.

丹尼尔说，这个故事与他有关，是一个关于塔利班不人道的故事，但这并不是丹尼尔所吸取的教训。

He can’t really argue with Michael’s assessment.

他无法真正反驳迈克尔的评估。

He thinks about the girls every day, and when he does, he thinks about killing himself.

他每天都想着女孩们，每当想到这些的时候，他就会想到自杀。

And so in the summer of 2021 Daniel spends his days in a concrete cage eight feet long and ten feet wide, a fragile man in a hard room among many other men in many other rooms.

因此，在 2021 年夏天，丹尼尔在一个八英尺长、十英尺宽的混凝土笼子里度过了他的日子，他是一个脆弱的人，和许多其他房间里的其他人一起住在一个坚硬的房间里。

It is out of concern for his well-being that the court wants him always in view.

出于对他健康的担忧，法庭希望他始终处于视线范围内。

Their interests are his interests.

他们的利益就是他的利益。

They’re trying to keep him safe.

他们正在努力保护他的安全。